The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: December 3 - 10, 1998

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1 star

Almost Heroes

(Warner Bros.)

Director Christopher Guest goes for mass appeal in this completely stupid tale of two explorers (played by the late Chris Farley and Friends' Matthew Perry) in a race with Lewis and Clark to reach the Pacific Ocean. And while you're trying to figure out why they keep putting members of the Friends cast in movies that are always sure disasters, or telling yourself that Perry and Farley have some sort of chemistry together, you can almost pretend you don't see every "joke" a-comin' round the mountain.
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